Re: revised description of RELAXED feature

Aleksander Slominski wrote:

> RELAXED_CHECKING=true
> BEST_EFFORT=true (i think it isbetter name than RELAXED ...)

OK

>>kXML can operate in modes 1 and 2.
 >
> hopefully it should allow to keep kXML2 size small too.

BEST_EFFORT mainly deactivates a few exceptions. I needed it for 
information extraction and parsing cHTML. Obviously, it's not for free, 
but smaller than two different parsers.

Best,
Stefan









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> alek
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>>Aleksander Slominski wrote:
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>>>hi,
>>>
>>>i took Stefan and Elliotte comments and tried to come up with the 
>>>updated description for RELAXED feature.
>>>
>>>does it sound right or did i miss something?
>>>
>>>thanks,
>>>
>>>alek
>>>
>>><h3>
>>><a name="relaxed"></a>Optional feature: RELAXED</h3>
>>><br />
>>>
>>><p>This feature is identified by
>>><a href="http://xmlpull.org/v1/doc/features.html#relaxed">
>>>http://xmlpull.org/v1/doc/features.html#relaxed</a> 
>>></p>
>>>
>>><p>If this feature is supported that means that XmlPull parser will be lenient 
>>>when checking XML well formedness. 
>>>Even when this feature is enabled parser <b>MUST</b> accepts all valid XML
>>>(the only exception is in case when PROCESS DOCDECL is disabled as in
>>>this case DOCDECL is not parsed). This feature is intended to indicate
>>>that the parser will make less effort to detect not well formed XML input. 
>>>Note that it is different from invalid XML documents: when
>>>VALIDATION feature is enabled RELAXED feature <b>MUST</b> be disabled.
>>></p>
>>>
>>><p><b>NOTE</b>: use it only if XML input is not well-formed and the usage 
>>>of this feature is <b>discouraged</b> </p>
>>>
>>><p><b>NOTE</b>: as there is no definition of what exactly is accepted as 
>>>without checks when relaxed XML parsing is enabled therefore what parser will do 
>>>completely depends on an implementation. For example in kXML2 relaxed setting 
>>>is used to parse subset of HTML including accepting SGML constructs
>>>such as &lt;table border=1> etc.
>>></p>
>>>
>>><p><b>NOTE</b>: This feature is intended be used in J2ME and
>>>similar very small footprint devices (where each KB of 64KB counts!)
>>>to help in producing very small footprint XML parsers 
>>>(such as kXML2).
>>></p>
>>>
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